The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the national HPV immunization program in Malaysia

In Malaysia, the HPV immunization program has been introduced since 2010 as part of the national immunization plan for female students aged 13 years old. It was a very successful immunization program with good responses from students and parents until the start of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The COVI...

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Autores principales: Rao, Sharvina Ramesh, Kampan, Nirmala, Chew, Kah Teik, Shafiee, Mohamad Nasir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9376674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35979457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.907720
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author Rao, Sharvina Ramesh
Kampan, Nirmala
Chew, Kah Teik
Shafiee, Mohamad Nasir
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description In Malaysia, the HPV immunization program has been introduced since 2010 as part of the national immunization plan for female students aged 13 years old. It was a very successful immunization program with good responses from students and parents until the start of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the schools to be closed and resulted about 225000 female students aged 13 years old either missed their vaccination or have incomplete doses of HPV vaccination in 2020 and 2021. This could possibly lead to an increase in cases of cervical cancer and genital warts in the upcoming years. Hence, a wellorganized catch-up HPV vaccination program is vital in ensuring the aim of achieving zero HPV-related infections in the future.
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spelling pubmed-93766742022-08-16 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the national HPV immunization program in Malaysia Rao, Sharvina Ramesh Kampan, Nirmala Chew, Kah Teik Shafiee, Mohamad Nasir Front Public Health Public Health In Malaysia, the HPV immunization program has been introduced since 2010 as part of the national immunization plan for female students aged 13 years old. It was a very successful immunization program with good responses from students and parents until the start of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the schools to be closed and resulted about 225000 female students aged 13 years old either missed their vaccination or have incomplete doses of HPV vaccination in 2020 and 2021. This could possibly lead to an increase in cases of cervical cancer and genital warts in the upcoming years. Hence, a wellorganized catch-up HPV vaccination program is vital in ensuring the aim of achieving zero HPV-related infections in the future. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9376674/ /pubmed/35979457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.907720 Text en Copyright © 2022 Rao, Kampan, Chew and Shafiee. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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